by Kristopher | Oct 17, 2022 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: Today is the first of two cover reveals this week from the always prolific Josh Pachter. Josh has long had a love of crime fiction’s past, and today’s reveal with connections to the legendary Ellery Queen is very exciting. Crippen...
by Kristopher | Oct 14, 2022 | Review
By following Mango, Mambo, and Murder with Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking, Raquel V. Reyes establishes that her Caribbean Kitchen mystery series will be delighting cozy crime readers for years to come. Miriam Quiñones-Smith and the diverse community and culture she...
by Kristopher | Oct 11, 2022 | Review
With Under a Veiled Moon, the second in her Inspector Corravan series, Karen Odden weaves together political unrest and societal flaws to craft a page-turning historical mystery. On an evening in September of 1878, London is shaken to its core by a horrific maritime...
by Kristopher | Oct 10, 2022 | Review
Adam Hamdy’s The Other Side of Night is one of those rare books that is truly unclassifiable, which means that it is also the perfect book to be Exhibit A in any discussion of why the whole concept of categorization is illogical, reductive, and ultimately pointless. A...
by Kristopher | Oct 6, 2022 | Review
With 1989, Val McDermid continues her latest series starring Allie Burns. In this unique sequence of novels – each set ten years after the previous entry – McDermid chronicles the life of journalist Allie Burns as she navigates the ever-changing landscape of the...
by Kristopher | Oct 3, 2022 | Review
With By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Gone (Murder, She Wrote #1), Stephanie Kuehn introduces a whole new generation of readers to the mysterious happenings in and around Cabot Cove, Maine. Beatrice Fletcher is the bi-racial great-niece of the legendary Jessica...
